Extreme monopolization fuses business elites with state violence apparatuses into one bloc.

Evidence

The practitioners of violence tend to become businessmen, and the businessmen become practitioners of violence. Many leading industrialists become high SS leaders … Many terrorists have assumed powerful industrial positions … The ascendance of the practitioners of violence is thus inherent in the most intense monopolization that a modern society has ever witnessed … A small group of powerful industrial, financial, and agrarian monopolists [is] tending to coalesce with a group of party hierarchs into one single bloc disposing of the means of production and the means of violence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1195

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the well-known Freigegeben discussion of totalitarian fusion of economy and state; parallels the Frankfurt School’s integration thesis with Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarian social atomization. — connects to: Intense monopolization fuses industrialists and party terrorists into one ruling bloc — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 311; Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition; Capitalist power infected and colonized state, deliberative, and propaganda powers. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 839

Broader Connections

• Capitalist power infected and colonized state, deliberative, and propaganda powers. #corroborates (0.85) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 839
• Absorbing rival elites into the ruling bloc decapitates and neutralizes opposition #expands (0.75)